Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.